Phottix Premio Reflective Umbrella, Silver & Black - 105cm

The Phottix Premio Reflective Umbrella, Silver & Black - 105cm is a premium, highly efficient light-shaping modifier engineered for on-location portraitists, fashion photographers, and commercial studio artists who require high-output, directional illumination with crisp contrast. Differing from low-cost, easily bent traditional studio umbrellas, the Premio series utilizes heavy-duty fiberglass support architecture that yields excellent structural rigidity while producing near-circular reflections.

The specular reflective silver interior treatment behaves as a high-yield bounce surface, maximizing your flash or continuous light source's total power output while maintaining sharp shadow definition and crisp specular highlights.

Product Features in Detail

Specular Reflective Silver Power Facade
The interior of the Premio umbrella is coated with a premium specular silver material designed to bounce and focus your flash or continuous light source’s native beam. This highly reflective surface dramatically increases total light output over long distances, making it an invaluable tool for working under bright ambient sun or lighting large areas with lower-powered flash heads.

High-Contrast and Crisp Shadow Definition
Unlike soft white reflective umbrellas that scatter light in all directions, this silver interior model guides your light with greater directionality. The resulting beam delivers clean, punchy contrast with snappy, well-defined specular highlights and deep, crisp shadows, perfectly accentuating textures, metallic details, and athletic muscle definition.

Heavy-Duty Fiberglass Structural Support Ribs
Moving away from fragile, easily dented aluminum or steel rods, this umbrella features high-tensile fiberglass support ribs. This heavy-duty framing can flex and bend under field stress or wind without permanently warping, ensuring the umbrella retains its deep, curved profile over years of heavy use.

Organic, Circular Eye Catchlight Reflection
The multi-rib fiberglass matrix is mapped symmetrically around the central shaft to pull the silver fabric taut into a highly rounded shape. When placed close to a portrait subject, this geometry reflects a sharp, organic circular catchlight in their eyes that beautifully mimics the appearance of natural daylight or premium studio beauty dishes.

High-Efficiency Opaque Black External Backing
The outside of the umbrella is wrapped in a dense, light-blocking black canvas. This structural backing prevents light from spilling out the back of the modifier, ensuring all of your light is pushed forward onto your subject. It also blocks ambient room lights from bleeding through the fabric and contaminating your lighting setup.

Flexible Bag-to-Softbox Optional Upgrade Path
To maximize your kit's travel utility, the umbrella is engineered with an optional upgrade path. By slipping an optional elastic-fit fabric diffuser over the open end of the umbrella, you can instantly block any remaining direct metallic shaft reflection and turn the entire system into a high-performance, rapid-folding front-facing softbox.